Experimental masterclasses in moving image art that work with Error, Systems, and Uncertainty.

Unstable Images - Masterclass Sessions

Unstable Images is a three-part masterclass series exploring experimental approaches to contemporary moving image art. Each session focuses on a specific process - glitch, scanography, or AI-generated video - examining how errors, tools, and emerging technologies can be used as creative materials. The series combines critical context with hands-on experimentation, encouraging artists to rethink how images are produced, manipulated, and presented.

Error, Distortion, & Digital Failure

Glitch Video Art explores the beauty of error, distortion, and digital failure as a creative language. In this two-hour masterclass, you’ll learn how to intentionally break, manipulate, and reconfigure video files to create striking, unpredictable visuals. Combining theory, historical context, and hands-on experimentation, this session demystifies glitch aesthetics and empowers you to use corruption, compression artifacts, and digital noise as expressive tools. No prior glitch experience is required - just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

Unstable Images: Glitch Video Art

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Course dates

This course is delivered in English with Russian as support.

20 Jan 2026 - 19:00 GMT+3

Price - Free

Duration - 2 hours

This masterclass is designed for artists, designers, filmmakers, and creatives interested in experimental moving image practices. Glitch Video Art encourages a playful, critical approach to digital tools - treating software not as a fixed system, but as a material to be bent, misused, and questioned.
Participants will gain both conceptual understanding and practical skills, learning how glitches emerge and how to intentionally create them without relying on expensive or complex tools. The techniques taught can be applied to video installations, music visuals, social media works, and experimental films.

By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear workflow for producing glitch-based video art and the confidence to continue experimenting independently. This masterclass prioritizes exploration over perfection and embraces the unexpected as a powerful creative force.

Scanography reimagines the flatbed scanner as a creative image-making device rather than a tool for reproduction. In this two-hour masterclass, you’ll explore how light, motion, and time interact within the scanning process to produce surreal, painterly, and unexpected imagery. Through a mix of conceptual discussion and hands-on demonstration, you’ll learn how to use scanners as cameras - capturing objects, textures, and movement in ways impossible with traditional photography. This session is ideal for artists looking to expand their experimental image-making practice using accessible, everyday technology.

Unstable Images: Scanography

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Course dates

This course is delivered in English with Russian as support.

8 Feb 2026 - 16:00 GMT+3

Price - Free

Duration - 2 hours

This masterclass is suitable for artists, photographers, designers, and anyone curious about unconventional image-making methods. Scanography encourages slow observation, physical interaction, and experimentation - inviting you to work directly with objects rather than lenses.
You’ll learn how scanners translate space and time into image data, producing distortions that can feel sculptural, abstract, or hyper-detailed. The process is accessible and low-tech, yet capable of producing highly refined, exhibition-ready results.

By the end of the session, participants will understand how to approach scanography both technically and conceptually, and how to develop a personal visual language using this overlooked tool. No specialist equipment is required - just a scanner, everyday materials, and a willingness to experiment.

AI Video Art introduces artists to machine learning - based tools as creative collaborators in moving image practice. In this two-hour masterclass, you’ll explore how text-to-video, image-to-video, and generative transformation tools can be used to produce experimental, conceptual, and visually rich video artworks. The session focuses on artistic intention rather than technical complexity, showing how AI can extend your visual language while raising important questions around authorship, aesthetics, and control. No coding experience is required - just an openness to experimentation and critical thinking.

Unstable Images: AI Video Art

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Course dates

This course is delivered in English with Russian as support.

24 February 2026 - 19:00 GMT+3

Price - Free

Duration - 2 hours

This masterclass is designed for artists, filmmakers, designers, and creatives interested in exploring AI as a contemporary artistic medium. Rather than focusing on technical depth or automation, the session emphasizes conceptual clarity, visual experimentation, and intentional use of generative tools.
Participants will learn how to approach AI video tools critically - understanding both their creative potential and their limitations. The class encourages thoughtful engagement with emerging technologies, positioning AI as a material to work with rather than a shortcut to finished work.

By the end of the session, attendees will have a clear workflow for producing AI-assisted video art and the confidence to integrate these tools into an existing practice. This masterclass complements experimental techniques such as glitch and scanography, offering a future-facing perspective on moving image art.